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141) Vail Pass, 1951
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A postcard of Vail Pass. The postmark is dated October 22, 1951. Following the completion of Highway 6 over the pass, the Eagle County Commissioners asked the state highway board to name the pass Vail Pass, after Charles D. Vail, the chief engineer for the State Highway Department. The request, originally put forth in December of 1939, was approved in 1941. The county commissioners were eager to have the pass named for Vail after local residents near...
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Section 6 of "A Glossary of Vail Valley Names" describes the streets, circles, lanes, trails, and drives throughout the Vail Valley and the history of their names.
What's in a name? The Simontons link the rich heritage of Eagle County pioneers and early development to something we use every day: our streets and roads. This section covers the areas of Vail, Avon, Eagle-Vail, Minturn, and Arrowhead, among others.
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"BATTLE MOUNTAIN is the most striking section of the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway between Tennessee Pass and Glenwood Springs. After the town drops down into the picturesque town of Red Cliff, hidden in the valley of the Eagle River, it cuts its way spectacularly along a great series of sheer, pointed, out-jutting white faced cliffs, gradually rising until it travels along the top of the great Eagle River Cañon far below."
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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.
